Alfresco content migration

What is Alfresco?

Alfresco is a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Business Process Management (BPM) technology. It was named a Challenger in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platforms.

There is much information on Alfresco (e.g. on Wikipedia, and our own introduction to Alfresco). This page gives information specific to integrating Alfresco with other applications, and migrating to and from Alfresco.

Alfresco supports Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS), which is an OASIS standard especially developed for the enterprise content management market. CMIS enables a standardized way to access any ECM system that has implemented the standard. Other systems that support CMIS are for example Microsoft SharePoint, IBM FileNet and EMC Documentum.

How to migrate content to Alfresco?

Many organizations are replacing their 'old' enterprise content management (for example Documentum) system with Alfresco. But, it also happens the other way around: they are migrating content from Alfresco to an alternative system, such as migrating Alfresco to SharePoint, FileNet or Documentum. Or, some even use multiple systems, e.g. SharePoint as a front end, and Alfresco as a back-end.

Want to extract data in bulk from Alfresco and load it in another system or a newer version of the enterprise content software?

There are several tools available that will accelerate the migration from or to Alfresco, but they lack insight into which data is valuable to migrate to Alfresco, nor do they provide the needed assistance and knowledge in the migration process.

Migration strategy

At Xillio we have a clear and proven migration approach. We can apply complex transformations to the extracted content in order to enrich it and to delete content without value. Examples of transformations are deduplication, classification, adding metadata and restructuring of content. The goal is that only valuable content is migrated to the new system, which improves findability (enterprise search) and compliancy.

To account for different content models of Alfresco and the other system(s) you import from and to, Xillio uses its unified content model. The unified content model stores exported content from the source system in a generic format and transforms it to the appropriate content model for the target system.

This ensures that all content, metadata, and other properties are transformed in the correct manner and your content migration has high fidelity.

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